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The ISMIS 2011 Contest: Music Information Retrieval has come to an end. Contest was organized by the
data mining competition platform - TunedIT
, and scientists from
Warsaw University of Technology, University of Warsaw and Gdansk University of Technology. The competition attracted very large interest among Data Mining and Music Information Retrieval community: 292 teams with 357 members had registered, 150 of them actively participated, submitting over 12,000 solutions in total, largely outperforming baseline methods. Contestants tackled two incredibly interesting tasks:
1. Music Genres - in this track the target was to create an algorithm capable of automatic music track classification (for example: jazz, rock, pop, etc). The top three solutions were submitted by:
- Amanda C. Schierz and Marcin Budka, Bournemouth University, UK (domcastro)
- Edward Apeh, Amanda C. Schierz and Marcin Budka, Bournemouth University, UK (BeYou)
- Brian S. Jones, Sandia National Laboratories, USA (wahoo)
2. Music Instruments - this task involved development of an algorithm capable of automatic instrument recognition in music track. Top three solutions were created by:
- Eleftherios Spyromitros Xioufis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (lefman)
- Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (tsoumakas)
- Robert Coleman, Daniel Schoonover and Eli Bowen (minor contributor), University of California, Irvine, USA (CNSlab)
Competition was very close. In the Music Instruments track unexpectedly the winning solution was submitted just few hours before the deadline.
All contest files, including target decisions and evaluation procedures, are now publicly available in TunedIT challenge folder. Feel free to use them in your research, just remember to put a reference to this contest.
Final results will be presented June 28-30 during ISMIS 2011 Conference in Warsaw.
We thank all the contestants for participation and hope you enjoyed the event and gained valuable experience. Also, we would like to invite you to take part in our future contests.
TunedIT